Kinga Mezei

She was born in Senta, in Vojvodina (Vajdaság), Serbia. She graduated from the Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad, in 2003. Between 1999 and 2004, she worked as an actor and director at the Novi Sad Theatre. In 2003, she was honoured with the Hungarian Jászai Mari Award for her work as a director. From 2004, she worked at the Bárka Theatre in Budapest, and then in 2011, she returned to her home country. Until 2015, she was an actor at the Kosztolányi Dezső Theatre, and after that worked as the artistic director of the Novi Sad Theatre. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Serbian Drama Association as an independent artist. In 2015, she started her doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad, joining the Dramatic and Audiovisual Arts Study Programme, and in October 2019, defended her doctoral thesis, Theatre Performance as a Gesamtkunstwerk Event and her performance, Nighttime. She has an artistic interest in poetic theatre that draws on the synthesis of different art forms. The audience could see her shows in Novi Sad (Serbia), Subotica (Serbia), Senta, Belgrade, Budapest, Zalaegerszeg (Hungary), Debrecen (Hungary), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Targu Mures and Sfantu Gheorghe (Romania).